I recall that one could ski from Stowe Mtn x-c ski center to Trapp's.
Is that going to obliterated?

That trail, Ranch Camp, should be unaffected, as it is well to the northwest
of and above the proposed development. In fact, the only really popular trail
that could be affected is the lower Haul Road, depending on where the new road
would be built. As for the Stowe Derby, well, they already have to shovel
snow and stop traffic so that the race can cross VT route 108 and another
street, so what's one more road crossing.

This isn't the first time that Johannes von Trapp has placed real estate
ambitions ahead of skiing. This past season they messed up the Luce trail
(the continuation of the clockwise loop from the lower Haul Road) for
construction of the new luxury timeshare buildings.

What is especially appalling is that, in the article I posted, he tries to
weasel out of his past statements about preserving the land by blaming the
town for not building the municipal sewer earlier, and claiming that, because
he couldn't get the timeshares up sooner, he "had to" engage in the new $15
million project. What a nasty, greedy lout he has become.

Lew Lasher
Cambridge, Massachusetts and Stowe, Vermont